Houston Public MediaMay 16, 2024

An independent review panel tasked with overseeing the Houston Police Department's internal probe into more than a quarter of a million suspended cases found major shortcomings in HPD's records management system.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/law-enforcement/2024/05/16/487505/independent-panel-reviewing-hpds-dropped-cases-finds-systemwide-failures/

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Mayor Whitmire’s HPD panel finds failures in records system led to suspended cases

The panel's preliminary report also details the creation of an internal code that was used to suspend nearly 270,000 unreviewed incident reports.

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